ASA member Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, was awarded the nation’s highest recognition for scientists and engineers, the National Medal of Science .
According to the Picower Institute’s website, Brown said, “This is an enormous pleasure to be recognized by the president with this high honor.”
Brown’s official citation, as read to an audience at the White House during a ceremony on January 3, was: “The National Medal of Science has been awarded to Emery Neal Brown for his revolutionary contributions to neuroscience and anesthesiology. Emery Brown’s neuroscientific approach to understanding anesthesia’s exact impact on the brain has been transformational for relieving patient suffering and has provided a new foundation for how we think about the very thing that makes us human, our consciousness.”
In addition to the National Medal of Science, Brown has been honored with the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, the Society for Neuroscience’s Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, and the Pierre Galletti Prize of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Brown is also an elected member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Read more about Brown from the Picower Institute. For information about the National Medal of Science, visit the National Science Foundation’s website.
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